Beauty Dos for Looking Great
Glamour names beauty dos for achieving great looks.
3D UV Gel Nail Art
Design Sculpture Gel, or D gel. The idea is have a gel that can easily be sculptured, carved and shaped like acrylic nail extension, but without smell or discomfort to the skin that some clients experience when acrylics are applied.
Royal Precision Brush
NSI’s Royal Precision Brush is ergonomically designed for balance and comfort.
Chocolate Passions Gel Collection
Epsilon’s new Chocolate Passions Gel Collection offers a wide collection of chocolate inspired colors.
Punctuated in Purple
Nails by Lee Barnes, Nails N Flight, Lanham, Md.
Lady Bugged
Nails by Tracy Ann Majewski, Tips, Toes & Do’s at Kutter’s Hair Salon, Buffalo, N.Y.
Glitter Celebration
Nails by Laurie Ivins, Profiles Hair Design, Sandpoint, Idaho
Stark Stiletto
Nails by Jayne Berger, Cissna Park, Ill.
Lovely Nails
Nails by Yoriko Kandono, Tokyo
3-D Nail Decals in the Garden Collection
Seeds of innovation are blooming with Cina Nail Creations 3-D nail decals in the Garden Collection.
How can nail techs be sure they aren’t compromising the strength of an enhancement by adding too many embellishments?
A current trend is to add glitter, mylar, and other embellishments to nail enhancements, but how can nail techs be sure they aren’t compromising the strength of the enhancement and causing premature service breakdown by adding too much? Sometimes the glitter tips I’ve sculpted break off at the free edge, causing clients to doubt my abilities. (This occurs more often in gels than acrylics.)
Behind the Scenes: Egg-ceptional Nails
Orange, Calif.-based celebrity manicurist and international educator Elsbeth created these perfect Easter egg-inspired nails for this month’s cover. Elsbeth, who travels in the United States and abroad to teach classes on celebrity nail styles and trends in color, has been especially busy lately, even doing Britney Spears’ nails for her new album cover.
by Hannah Lee
Clay Cane Slicing for Nail Art
Debbie from beautytech.com demonstrates how to slice nail art Clay Canes really thin. The polymer clay canes might have to be warmed before slicing, it depends on the brand of clay used (Fimo, Sculpty or any number of other brands. See www.beautytech.com/shoppe for more info on slicing and application with acrlics and gel enhancements.
Extreme Tips
INM’s new Extreme Tips have a deep C-curve and smile line for the professionally sculpted look.
Boudoir Collection
Color Club’s Boudoir Collection offers professional stripers, sprinkles, and rhinestones in only black and white.
Spring Has Sprung
Nails by Yomary Millan, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee
All That Glitters
Nails by Julia Barrios, ASP Aspire educator, Hatillo, Puerto Rico